Note 61 — AMARYLLIS: OR, THE THIRD IDYLLIUM OF THEOCRITUS, PARAPHRASED.[59]
Reading edition
Melampus, the son of Amythaon, was a prophet and physician. Tibullus cites him in the character of an augur:
——compertum est veracibus ut mihi signis, Queis Amythaonius nequeat certare Melampus.
As a physician, he discovered the use of hellebore; thence called Melampodium.